Keyword
few
Info
FrequencyTop 100
Type
Kyōiku (2nd grade) 
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KankenLevel 9
Heisig111
Readings
すこ
(41%)
おと
(14%)
すく
(9%)
Composed of
small
slash left
Mnemonic

If you take something that is already small and slash at it a few times to break it into chunks, well, at the end you're going to end up only with a few pieces. If you'd had something bigger you could have broken it up into more chunks, but alas.

Used in kanji (20 in total)
walk
strange
sand
second
Used in vocabulary (229 in total)
small quantity; little; little while; short distance
few; a little; scarce; insufficient; seldom
a bit more; a bit longer
Examples (200 in total)
Will you give me some?
He left a while ago.
I used to have a little crush on you.